Pocket-book.



I. SMITH.

POCKET BOOK.

APPLIATIoN mso www. sels.

Patented May 29, 1917.

l ne* m UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

IBEDELL SMITH, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES F. WALLERSTEDT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

POCKET-BOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 29, 1917'.

Application led May 18, 1916. Serial N o. 98,329.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, IREDELL SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket-Books; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings', and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in pocket books and consists in the provision of a simple and efficient device of this nature so arranged that the iiaps upon the same afford means for allowing a bill to be properly positioned within the pocket book and prevented from losing out and so arranged that the shaking of the bill fold, when opened out, will dislodge the bill therefrom and, at the same time, per" mitting bills of different denominations to be extracted without disturbing the other bills that may be held in the pocket book.

The invention comprises various details of construction which will be hereinafter fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

I illustrate my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a plan view showing the sheet of material out of which the pocket book is made. y

Fig. 2 is aview showing a bill adjusted in place. f

gig. 3 is a rear View of the pocket book, an

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 4 4 of Fig. 1.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a sheet of leather or other suitable material out of which the pocket book is made, and having two semi-cylindrical slits B cut therein, forming the oppositely disposed flaps C underneath which the bill is held in the manner shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

-By the provision ofthe slits, the lingers are allowed to be passed therethrough and in this way the adjustment of the bills may be facilitated to proper position in order that corresponding ends of the bills may be brought flush with the inner end fold and, when properly placed and folded, the bills will-not accidentally be lost from the pocket book and bills of different denominations may be extracted without disturbing the rest of the bills.

What I claim to be new is A porte-monnaie comprising a single piece of material having two oppositely disposed flaps cut up therefrom and spaced apart and underneath which a bill is adapted to be placed with the opposite marginal edges thereof bearing against the inner ends of the slits formed by cutting of the flaps.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aiiiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

IREDELL SMTH.

Witnesses:

WALTER R. JOHNSON, CHAS. F. yVVERBEL. 

